Pirated audiobooks

Mark Millman · 05 Feb 2008, 20:58 · from 2008-February.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: markjmillman at gmail.com (Mark Millman)
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:58:50 -0500
Subject: (urth) Pirated audiobooks
In-Reply-To: <44fb53d10802051136v6623798bx33675969f49e62eb at mail.gmail.com>
References: <ecbb2eb0802051124j4930be9avad90c8774e3ed9f6 at mail.gmail.com>
	<44fb53d10802051136v6623798bx33675969f49e62eb at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c873c2920802051258h20289b3ej1be262a07cbb7f82 at mail.gmail.com>

Folks,

The SFWA probably are not the right contact for this.  Not long ago
they tried to act, as they thought, on behalf of some of their members
with regard to some electronic rights issues.  It turned out, if I
remember correctly, that the SFWA were not empowered to act for any of
those members, and for some authors--I recall in particular Cory
Doctorow--their actions were in direct opposition to the authors'
wishes.

Mr. Wolfe's agent would be a much better person to notify.  The agent
is responsible for protecting the author's rights, and will also know
whether or not any particular publication is authorized.  Regrettably,
since Virginia Kidd's death, I no longer know who that may be.  Do any
of you have that information?

Best,

Mark Millman

On Tuesday 5 February 2008, Matthew Keeley wrote:

> According to their website, Wolfe is a member of
> the SFWA. I get the impression that the SFWA
> tends to handle this sort of thing for some of their
> writers. I assume Wolfe is still a member. He's
> listed on the site.
>
> sfwa.org
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On Monday 5 February 2008, Aaron Singleton wrote:
>
> > I found several Wolfe audiobooks  for sale on CD.
> > These are audio works originally produced for the
> > blind.  The person selling these has packaged
> > them professionally and is advertising them as
> > commercial editions when they are not.  I believe
> > this is copyright infringement and that GW should
> > be informed of this.  I know I would not be happy
> > about a person profiting from my work, especially
> > when I gave permission for the books to be made
> > for the blind only.  This is exploitation.  I am in-
> > cluding the link below, so if anyone can tell me
> > how to get this info to Mr. Wolfe or his agent,
> > please let me know.  Thank you all in advance,
> >
> > Aaron Singleton
> >
> >
> > here is the link:
> > http://www.ioffer.com/i/Gene-Wolfe-MP3-Audiobooks-Unabridged-30442401

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net